Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers White Ahmed
2022 International Labor History Association Book of the YearA dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies--and how the destruction of their…
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2022 International Labor History Association Book of the YearA dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies--and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day.In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly gaining strength and members. Within a decade, this radical union was effectively destroyed, the victim of the most remarkable campaign of legal repression and vigilantism in American history. Under the Iron Heel is the first comprehensive account of this campaign.Founded in 1905, the IWW offered to the millions of workers aggrieved by industrial capitalism the promise of a better world. But its growth, coinciding with World War I and the Russian Revolution and driven by uncompromising militancy, was seen by powerful capitalists and government officials as an existential
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